AP – The White House is giving nine local TV stations and the Hearst Television network a day of special, behind-the-scenes access Tuesday, including on-air time with President Barack Obama to talk up his $447 billion jobs bill and how the stalled plan would benefit their communities.
The European debt crisis has claimed its first big casualty on Wall Street, a securities firm run by former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. MF Global Holdings Ltd., which Mr. Corzine has headed since early last year, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday. Concerns about the company’s holdings of European debt …
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AP – In the latest development in the controversy over an Obama administration gun-smuggling investigation, the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division said Monday he regrets not alerting the department’s leadership to problems in a similar gun-smuggling probe under the Bush administration.
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On Monday, SunTrust Banks became the latest financial institution to stop charging for debit cards, making the move after the new fees proved wildly unpopular with customers. The bank, which began charging $5 a month for debit cards in June, promised Monday to cancel the fee and return all the …
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AP – A Halloween-themed graphic featuring a zombie President Barack Obama with a bullet hole in his forehead provoked widespread outrage and the attention of the Secret Service Monday after a local Republican committee in Virginia used it to scare up interest in Halloween parade political activities.
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JOEL KOTKIN: Overpopulation Isn’t The Problem: It’s Too Few Babies. “For the next generation of Chinese leaders, Deng Xiaoping’s rightful concern about overpopulation at the end of the Mao era will shift into a future of eldercare costs, shrinking domestic markets and labor shortages. This scenario is already a reality in Japan and much of the European continent, including Greece, Spain, Portugal, much of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Germany. Adults over the age of 65 make up more than 20% of these countries’ populations — compared with 15% in the U.S. — and their numbers could double by 2030, according to researchers Emma Chen and Wendell Cox. In many of these countries, rising debt burdens and shrinking labor markets have already slowed economic growth and suppressed any hope for a major long-term turnaround. The same will happen to even the best-run European economies, just as it has in Japan, whose decades-long growth spurt ended as its workforce began to shrink.”
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Edward DeMarco said the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s legal responsibility is focus on the financial health of Freddie and Fannie. Read more…
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ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | I recently received quite a deceptive e-mail — reposted for rating on Word Press “Point/Counter Point,” from Jen O’Malley Dillon, the deputy campaign manager for Obama for America. It was titled, “Getting the Facts Straight on Regulation.” Unfortunately, her facts are wrong.
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Obama’s Energy Czar — Twisting the Facts on Regulation
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ContributorNetwork – The University of Utah, which tracks the nation’s drug shortages, has reported 213 drugs are in short supply this year. These are medications used to treat cancer, infections, high blood pressure and more. Doctors are rationing these drugs, leading to delays in treatment and sometimes even death.
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Obama Addresses Drug Shortages with an Executive Order
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